Sapir's Classifications: Haida and the Other Na-Dene Languages  

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Ramer, Alexis Manaster

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 38 no. 2 (1996), page 179-215.
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Sapir's proposal, following earlier suggestions by Boas and Swanton, that Haida is related to Athabaskan and Tlingit is reexamined, as are the critiques of Sapir by Krauss, Levine, and Jacobsen, and the defense of Sapir by Greenberg. I argue that both sides in the debate have taken extreme positions which have not been logically justified and which have presupposed a false picture of the history and nature of linguistic classification and of Sapir's role in it. I conclude that the majority of the criticisms against Sapir are invalid, or else can easily be responded to, and that even by the critics' own criteria there is a rather impressive case for the validity of Sapir's construction. In addition, I call attention to significant amounts of data which have been ignored in the debate to date and which again seem to support Sapir's views. At the same time, unlike Greenberg, I identify a number of mistakes in Sapir's arguments and leave the case for Haida being Na-Dene, as did Sapir, at a preliminary stage, pending a careful examination of additional data, especially those in Sapir's manuscripts.

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